The Officers’ Club puts the “life” back into live music with free evening performances that invite you to move and mingle. Performances range from jazz to classical music from around the world, and are curated by San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music in partnership with the Presidio Trust. In the intimate atmosphere of a house concert, listeners can savor, lounge and learn as they wish. Guests move comfortably between Arguello, the destination restaurant and bar, and the performances in Moraga Hall, with opportunities to converse with performers and each other.

Ensemble mise-en returns for its annual musical festival. The program comprises works selected from over 1,100 submissions by composers from Scandinavia, the United States, and other European countries, including Jan Martin Smørdal, Charles Mason, Joel Rust, Kristina Warren, Corey Cunningham, and more. Chartreuse Ensemble will join ensemble mise-en for the festival.

Now in its EIGHTH year, the Hot Air Music Festival is a student-organized new music marathon that focuses on world premieres and collaborations by young composers and performers as well as music written in the past 50 years.

In partnership with the Friends of the San Carlos Library, San Carlos Library is hosting the third annual San Carlos Eclectic Music Festival--a series of five diverse contemporary classical and folk music performances.

Featuring works by Sahba Aminikia & Bela Bartok; world premieres by Haley Shaw and Jodie Rottle

Tiny Telephone was opened in September of 1997 to provide affordable hi-fi recording to San Francisco’s independent music community. We have three wonderful studios to work in. Our new Oakland studio opened January of 2016, and incldues 23' ceilings, a rebuilt Neve double 8068 console, and two Studer 820 2'' tape machines. Contact John Vanderslice at jv@tinytelephone.com for more information including booking, studio tours, etc. tinytelephone.com

Ephemeral Stream Recordings is a not-for-profit record label based near a secret creek in Oakland CA. We release limited editions of adventurous music in both magnetic and alternative digital formats. facebook.com/ephemeralstream

This year’s festival will highlight the ingenious and arresting work of Iranian-American composer and San Francisco resident Sahba Aminikia, who will serve as the festival’s artist-in-residence. Amaranth Quartet, Delphi Trio, and Mobius Trio, three of the Bay Area’s most impressive young ensembles to come out of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, will survey four of his emotionally poignant and musically rich works. This intimate concert will feature diverse works for solo piano, piano trio, string quartet, and guitar, and concludes with an informal conversation with Aminikia.

This concert brings a modern classic in Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto as well as a world premiere work for ensemble and voice from San Francisco mainstay Richard Festinger featuring Baritone Daniel Cilli. These are balanced by Michael Pisaro’s percussive-pure "ricefall" and Kate Soper’s voice-and-ensemble "Door" in a widely varied program suggesting any number of surprising mirrorings, contrasts, and conversations among these pieces and composers.

250 girls of the iSing Girlchoir come together for the annual holiday concert at the beautiful Mission Santa Clara. Join us for this festive and joyful evening of music, featuring traditional carols and holiday favorites. Featured choirs: Melodics, Harmonics, Prephonics, Polyphonics & HD. Melodics is featured in the 2PM performance only.

Project Connect is a benefit concert for Project Homeless Connect that will be held at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The concert is free admission with donations accepted on this eventbrite page and at the door. All proceeds go towards Project Homeless Connect.

Members of the SFCM community have come together to create 8 pieces following the semester long theme of music, politics and social justice at SFCM, 7 of which are world premieres! Join us in person or by watching the live stream as we explore the intersection between music and the political issues that we face today.

Whether or not you can attend the concert in person, please learn more about Project Homeless Connect, located at 25 Van Ness, at https://www.projecthomelessconnect.org and donate if you can!

PEV offers its trademark blend of traditional and contemporary of music for the holiday season, together with Amaranth String Quartet. At the center of the program are several Baroque gems: The third cantata from J.S. Bach’s glorious Christmas Oratorio, select Christmas interpolations from Bach’s Magnificat, and Heinrich Schutz’s rarely heard storytelling masterpiece, “The Story of the Birth of Jesus Christ.” The Gloria by Sonoma county composer John Maas brings the musical celebration home to the Bay Area, along with other contemporary and traditional works.

One Found Sound is a conductorless, collaborative chamber orchestra on a mission to break down the barriers of the classical music stigma; to bring it back to its glory days of boisterous audiences and the thrill of discovering something new with each note.